An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1883/1884 |
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Law Number | 410 |
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Chap. 410.—An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase
by the United States of certain real estate in the county of Norfolk,
and exempting the same from taxation.
Approved March 13, 1884.
Whereas it has been represented to the general assembly
that it may be desirable for the United States to acquire by
urchase a piece or parcel of land in Norfolk county, on the
lizabeth river, immediately opposite to the Gosport navy
yard, known as Cedar Grove, for the construction of a wet-
dock and for naval purposes,
1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the consent of this commonwealth be and is hereby given to
said purchase; and when the same shall have been made,
jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the government of the United
States, so that congress and the authorities of the federal
government shall have all lawful power and control over and.
in the same, as is specified im the seventeenth clause of the
eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the
United States: provided however, that the consent herein
given shall not extend to the purchase or acquisition of more
than sixty acres of land for the purposes aforesaid: and pro-
vided further, that the state retains jurisdiction over the
same inall matters relating to the violations of the laws of
this state, to the execution and service of all process issued
by or from the courts, magistrates or other state officers in
pursuance of law, and in all other matters not incompatible
with the consent herein given, and the rightful authority of
the United States thereby acquired or to ‘be acquired under
this act.
2. If the government of the United States shall fail to
make the purchase specified in ghe preceding section, and for
the purpose therein designated, within four years from the
passave of this act. then this act shall cease to be of any
force or cffect, and the full, complete and undivided jurisdic-
tion over the same shall revert to and vest in this common-
wealth as if it had not been passed.
3. The said real estate, and the buildings or structures that
may be erected thereon, are hereby exempted from any tax
to he maposed by this state, or the constituted authorities of
Norfolk county, so long as the same shall be held and used
by the gene ral government tor the purposes hereinbetore
mentioned, and no longer.
4. This act shall be in force from its passiuge.